At 14:03 25/05/2014 +0100, Barry Knox wrote:
People send me big documents with paragraphs auto-numbered. I need
to work on them, add paras, alter paras, delete paras and comment
and debate content. So I need to preserve the original paragraph
numbering so that when I return the altered document the recipient
can see and find what has been abstracted, added or altered. I can
of course use Track Changes ...
Er, that's Record Changes.
... which helps a bit but ...... How do I preserve the numbers
auto-allocated to the paragraphs by the originator so they become
part of the text: ie so they survive my edits?
[Someone] said:
"To be honest: I have not tried converting automatic numbering to
fixed text in libreoffice yet, but only on MS office, and there it
can be done with a quite complicated key combination (as far as I
can remember something like ctrl-alt-shift-f9)."
That's Ctrl+Shift+F9, I think.
Do either of you happen to know the correct key combination in Writer please?
I don't think there is a process to achieve exactly what you want.
But here is a close workaround:
o Select all the text (Edit | Select All or Ctrl+A).
o Cut all the text (Edit | Cut or Ctrl+X).
o Backspace to remove the empty first numbered paragraph.
o Go to Edit | Paste Special... (or Ctrl+Shift+V), choosing
"Unformatted text" in the Paste Special dialogue.
How are the people who are sending you these documents preparing
them? If it happens that they are using Microsoft Word, you could
teach them how to "unlink fields" in the documents before sending
them to you. That way, you'd preserve any formatting that you *did* want.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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